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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Shaun Tan does it again!

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Rejoice! Having won a Best Artist Hugo only last year, our very own Aussie Shaun Tan has now won an Oscar for the short film based on his bo...
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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Blood Maidens By Barbara Hambly. Severn House Publishers, 2010

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It's 1911. Oxford university lecturer and former spy James Asher and his doctor wife Lydia are asked by their vampire friend Don Simon ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

From Slushpile to Art

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I answer inquiries for Andromeda Spaceways - both general ones and art inquiries. I also arrange with artists for them to illustrate stories...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

First Writers' Club for the Year

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Today we had our first meeting of the campus writers' club. There were some new Year 7 students who had joined us. The usual suspects fr...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Phryne Fisher goes TV

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I just heard, tonight, at a meeting of Sisters In Crime - the wonderful Phryne Fisher novels of Kerry Greenwood are finally making it to TV,...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Whale's Tale review copies

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I've had a request from Liz Bright at Peggy Bright Books, asking me to offer, on her behalf, review copies of The Whale's Tale by E...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Various promos for my book

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I've been very lucky in the promotions field. If anyone wants to hear the interview I did with Robert Jan on Zero G, there's a direc...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Look What I Found! A new Barbara Hambly book!

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Yesterday I was in the library when I stumbled across a brand new book in the series that started with a book that's called either Immor...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING – NON-FICTION

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I enjoy reading non-fiction. Sooner or later you have to look up stuff for what you’re going to write, but in between books it’s good just t...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Andromeda Spaceways 50th anniversary issue

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You all know, by now, that I've been involved with Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine for some years. I read slush, I answer inquirie...
Monday, January 17, 2011

More publicity!

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The interview went well, I think. The information is up on the RRR web site under "Zero G" and the podcast will be up as soon as R...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Interview on RRR

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For anybody who has time to turn to 3RRR, I will be doing an interview about Wolfborn on Rob Jan's science fiction program, Zero G, Mond...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

New Follower, New Link

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I've added a link on the side to a web site called Marcus Marcus And The Hurting Heart . The author, Rab Fulton, who has just joined thi...
Monday, January 10, 2011

H.I.V.E; Zero Hour. By Mark Walden. London, Bloomsbury, 2010

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In the first novel of this series, H.I.V.E: Higher Institute of Villainous Education , we met Otto Malpense, a computer genius who also h...
Monday, January 03, 2011

A Toast To The Professor!

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Yesterday, January 3rd, I was sitting on the beach, re-reading Lord of The Rings and loving it as always. I remember the first time I read ...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Me and my new T-shirt!

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Isn't it great what you can do nowadays? I decided it might be nice to promote my new book, so I went to the local camera shop and using...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

UNEARTHLY By Cynthia Hand. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2011

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Clara is part-angel. She has known this since she turned fourteen a couple of years ago. Like others of her kind, she expects to learn her “...
Friday, December 24, 2010

What I enjoy about Christmas Day

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Christmas isn't my holiday. I don't have any need to spend it having lunch and exchanging gifts with family members. I think we had ...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Seer Of Sevenwaters By Juliet Marillier. Pan MacMillan, 2010.

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Reviewed by guest blogger Thando Bhebe. Seer of Sevenwaters is about Sibeal, a girl committed to becoming a druid. Before her final vows sh...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Interview with Juliet Marillier

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This interview was conducted by guest blogger Thando Bhebe. Thando is a passionate reader who is currently diving into 30 library books sh...
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